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Good Night Owl

Even though this post went up on March 1st, you probably didn’t even know it was there until March 2nd. That’s not because you’re not top of your RSS feed, emptying my posts out of your email inbox or simply skipped reading my writing yesterday. It’s because I didn’t post this until the late hours […]

So Long, ProductiVardy

Yesterday I finally revealed some of the major details of my secret book project. Today I’m revealing the end of another project. Knowing when to quit something that you enjoy doing is tough to act on, but in order for the other things to flourish…you’ve got to let something go. For me, that thing is

A Leap Year of Faith: The Mike Vardy Secret Book Project Revealed

We’re wrapping up a day that only appears on the calendar once every four years. It’s a year where we get an extra day tacked on for good measure – scientific measure, I imagine – but what do we do with that extra day? Do we see it as bonus or just see it as

February 29th

We’re always asking for more time because we never have enough of it. Today we get a bonus day, an extra 24 hours to work with. When you think about that, it’s a pretty sweet deal. I am not sure who to thank for this, but I’m betting that Stephen Hackett and Myke Hurley over

Getting Things Done with Clear

Earlier this month I decided I’d take on an experiment with the newly-released Clear iPhone app. My initial review of the app over at Cult of Mac wasn’t as glowing as the reviews of countless others, so I figured I must have had my head wrapped around it entirely wrong. What I found is that

Why I Ditched My Standing Desk

I’m sitting a lot more these days.1 I did run with an Ikea Jerker desk as a standing desk for a long time — pretty much until the end of last year. But ever since my wife picked me up a Levenger lap desk for Christmas (thanks also to Patrick Rhone for the nudge), I’ve

Another Packed Mac

Today the latest episode of the Mikes on Mics podcast was unleashed to the world, featuring the contents of Michael Schechter’s Applications folder this time around.

The Productivity Shift

Yesterday I spoke at IdeaWave 2012, with an abridged version of a talk I’ve been working on. The talk — for the purposes of yesterday’s event — was known simply as Mindfulness 2.0, but it was only part of a broader concept that I refer to as The Productivity Shift. It runs along similar lines

The Definition of Fitting

A friend of mine, Jodie Gastel, sent me some information on Facebook that made me both chuckle and think at the same time.